Recognizing student emotions using brainwaves and mouse behavior data

College

College of Computer Studies

Department/Unit

Computer Technology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

Volume

11

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

15

Publication Date

4-1-2013

Abstract

Brainwaves (EEG signals) and mouse behavior information are shown to be useful in predicting academic emotions, such as confidence, excitement, frustration and interest. Twenty five college students were asked to use the Aplusix math learning software while their brainwaves signals and mouse behavior (number of clicks, duration of each click, distance traveled by the mouse) were automatically being captured. It is shown that by combining the extracted features from EEG signals with data representing mouse click behavior, the accuracy in predicting academic emotions substantially increases compared to using only features extracted from EEG signals or just mouse behavior alone. Furthermore, experiments were conducted to assess the prediction accuracy of the system at points during the learning session where several of the extracted features significantly deviate in value from their mean. The experiments confirm that the prediction performance increases as the number of feature values that deviate significantly from the mean increases. Copyright © 2013, IGI Global.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.4018/jdet.2013040101

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Emotion recognition; Electroencephalography; Intelligent tutoring systems

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